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Rèze

The backbone of Swiss wines: vignerons-encaveurs

14/11/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

A glass wine jar for a drum, women on stilts to welcome us, and a man with a long unwieldy Alpine horn that he suddenly picks up and starts to hurl jazzy notes into a bright blue Alpine sky – what a way to start a celebration! Above us a glass dome by contemporary Swiss […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, News, Wineries Tagged With: Charte St Théodule, Cornalin, French vignerons indépendents, Humagne Rouge, Muscat, Rèze, Swiss Guild Restaurateurs-Cuisiniers, vigneron-encaver suisse

Tsampéhro finds its stride

09/11/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

A lingering autumn day of sunshine and the option to dine outside will put anyone in a good mood, but I don’t think this is the reason that the newly released Tsampéhro wines I tasted Monday were good – it was the best of the tastings I’ve done of these wines, which came onto the […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Christian Gellerstad, Clos de Tsampéhro, Completer, Cornalin, Drosophila suzukii, Emmanuel Charpin, Flanthey, Joanna Dayer, Joel Briguet, Merlot, Petite Arvine, Pinot Noir, Rèze, Savagnin Blanc, Tsampéhro, Vaas, Vincent Tenud, yield

Electus and Eclat, well on the road

01/11/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

“A vine adds leaves, then flowers, then grapes. But wine goes in the opposite direction, from the fruit back to the soil.” Damien Carruzzo, oenologist, Valais Mundi Provins made a daring gamble a decade ago and it is starting to pay off. Switzerland’s largest winery, the Valais cantonal cooperative, decided that as part of its […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Castel d'Uvrier, Cornalin, Damien Carruzzo, Diolinoir, Eclat, Electus, Heida, Humagne Rouge, Madeleine Gaye, Merlot, Petite Arvine, Provins, Raphaël Garcia, Rèze, St Léonard, Swiss blends, Syrah, Valais Mundi

Rare grapes, do we love their wines?

20/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

What do rare wines from old and new grapes taste like, and should we love them? See also: The strange world of rare grapes Discovery wines Serge Heymoz of Cave les Sentes sums up my feeling for many of the old varieties I’ve tasted, when he speaks of Rèze, a wine that has been around […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Audacieux, Benoît Dorsaz, Cave les Sentes, Chambleau, Completer, Divico, Ephémère, Galotta, Grosse Arvine, La Petite Grange, Lafnetscha, Memoire des Vins Suisses, rare wines, Räuschling, red wines Marie-Thérèse Chappaz, Rèze, Serge Heymoz

The strange world of rare grapes

20/04/2018 by Ellen Wallace 4 Comments

Why would you drink wine from grapes you’ve never heard of unless you’re on your honeymoon or an exotic vacation? Just when you thought you were starting to understand wine because you could rattle off the names of a few grape varieties and even briefly describe the kind of wines they give, someone gets excited […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Areni, Assyrtiko, Benoît Dorsaz, Cabernello, Chanton, Divico, Durize, Gregor Kuonen, Grosse Arvine, Gwäss, Himbertscha, Hitzkircher, Jancis Robinson, Lafnetscha, Nerolo, Obeidy, Olivier Pittet, Pansa Blanca, Papaz Karasi, Plantscher, Rèze, Riveyrenc, Serge Heymoz, Wine Mosaic project

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